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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856
Persian Customs! or, Eunuchs performing the office of lady's maids! : dedicated to the Circassian Beauty / (Yedis [i.e. Sidebotham] invt).
London : Pubd by Sidebethem [sic] No.287 Strand, 1819.
etching, hand colored
image: 218 x 329 mm; plate mark: 250 x 350 mm; sheet: 257 x 372 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.477
Notes
Etching by I.R. Cruikshank.
Refers to the much publicized arrival in England of the Persian ambassador in the company of his wife, popularly referred to as "The Circassian Beauty."
Refers to the much publicized arrival in England of the Persian ambassador in the company of his wife, popularly referred to as "The Circassian Beauty."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the Circassian reclining on a sofa at the foot of a large curtained bed. One burlesqued eunuch pulls off a stocking, another adjusts her head-draperies; beside the former 'Precious Stones' are spread on the ground. They make coarse remarks, written in reversed characters.
Associated names
Sidebotham, J., publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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